2 Corinthians 3:6

Catholic Public Domain Version

And he has made us suitable ministers of the New Testament, not in the letter, but in the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

Cross References

Jeremiah 31:31

Behold, the days are approaching, says the Lord, when I will form a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah,

Matthew 13:52

He said to them, "Therefore, every scribe well-taught about the kingdom of heaven, is like a man, the father of a family, who offers from his storehouse both the new and the old."

Matthew 26:28

For this is my blood of the new covenant, which shall be shed for many as a remission of sins.

Mark 14:24

And he said to them: "This is my blood of the new covenant, which shall be shed for many.

Luke 22:20

Similarly also, he took the chalice, after he had eaten the meal, saying: "This chalice is the new covenant in my blood, which will be shed for you.

John 5:21

For just as the Father raises the dead and gives life, so also does the Son give life to whomever he wills.

John 6:63

Then what if you were to see the Son of man ascending to where he was before?

Romans 1:5

through whom we have received grace and Apostleship, for the sake of his name, for the obedience of faith among all the Gentiles,

Romans 3:20

For in his presence no flesh shall be justified by the works of the law. For knowledge of sin is through the law.

Romans 4:15

For the law works unto wrath. And where there is no law, there is no law-breaking.

Romans 4:17

in whom he believed, who revives the dead and who calls those things that do not exist into existence. For it is written: "I have established you as the father of many nations."

Romans 7:6

But now we have been released from the law of death, by which we were being held, so that now we may serve with a renewed spirit, and not in the old way, by the letter.

Romans 8:2

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has freed me from the law of sin and death.

1 Corinthians 11:25

Similarly also, the cup, after he had eaten supper, saying: "This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me."

1 Corinthians 12:28

And indeed, God has established a certain order in the Church: first Apostles, second Prophets, third Teachers, next miracle-workers, and then the grace of healing, of helping others, of governing, of different kinds of languages, and of the interpretation of words.

1 Corinthians 15:45

Just as it was written that the first man, Adam, was made with a living soul, so shall the last Adam be made with a spirit brought back to life.

1 Corinthians 3:10

According to the grace of God, which has been given to me, I have laid the foundation like a wise architect. But another builds upon it. So then, let each one be careful how he builds upon it.

1 Corinthians 3:5

We are only the ministers of him in whom you have believed, just as the Lord has granted to each of you.

2 Corinthians 11:23

They are the ministers of Christ (I speak as if I were less wise); more so am I: with many more labors, with numerous imprisonments, with wounds beyond measure, with frequent mortifications.

2 Corinthians 3:14

for their minds were obtuse. And, even until this present day, the very same veil, in the readings from the Old Testament, remains not taken away (though, in Christ, it is taken away).

2 Corinthians 3:3

It has been made manifest that you are the Epistle of Christ, ministered by us, and written down, not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God, and not on tablets of stone, but on the fleshly tablets of the heart.

2 Corinthians 3:7

But if the ministration of death, engraved with letters upon stones, was in glory, (so much so that the sons of Israel were not able to gaze intently upon the face of Moses, because of the glory of his countenance) even though this ministration was ineffective,

2 Corinthians 3:9

For if the ministration of condemnation is with glory, so much more is the ministration of justice abundant in glory.

Galatians 3:21

So then, was the law contrary to the promises of God? Let it not be so! For if a law had been given, which was able to give life, truly justice would be of the law.

Ephesians 2:1

And you were once dead in your sins and offenses,

Ephesians 2:5

even when we were dead in our sins, has enlivened us together in Christ, by whose grace you have been saved.

Ephesians 3:7

Of this Gospel, I have been made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God, which has been given to me by means of the operation of his virtue.

Deuteronomy 27:26

Cursed be he who does not remain in the words of this law, and does not carry them out in deed. And all the people shall say: Amen."

1 Timothy 4:6

By proposing these things to the brothers, you will be a good minister of Christ Jesus, nourished by words of faith, and by the good doctrine that you have secured.

2 Timothy 1:11

Of this Gospel, I have been appointed a preacher, and an Apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.

Hebrews 12:24

and to Jesus, the Mediator of the New Testament, and to a sprinkling of blood, which speaks better than the blood of Abel.

Hebrews 13:20

Then may the God of peace, who led back from the dead that great Pastor of sheep, our Lord Jesus Christ, with the blood of the eternal testament,

Hebrews 7:22

By so much, Jesus has been made the sponsor of a better testament.

Hebrews 8:13

Now in saying something new, he has made the former old. But that which decays and grows old is close to passing away.

1 Peter 3:18

For Christ also died once for our sins, the Just One on behalf of the unjust, so that he might offer us to God, having died, certainly, in the flesh, but having been enlivened by the Spirit.

1 John 1:1

He who was from the beginning, whom we have heard, whom we have seen with our eyes, upon whom we have gazed, and whom our hands have certainly touched: He is the Word of Life.